Hi there, I am new to Linux and I am trying to find out how to go about creating a file that will automatically email all of the files (5-10 new files) in a directory to myself every day. I am a digital compositor and being able to send myself all of my scripts daily in order to maintain a constant backup would be very useful. If anyone could offer any help on doing this I would greatly appreciate it.

Still looking for an answer to this if anyone could help out!

You can send files as attachments from the commandline with: $ afilename=somefile.ext;(echo "$afilename is attached" ; cat $afilename | uuencode $afilename) | mail -s "`echo $afilename`" youraddress@yourserver.com With that you should be able to write a small shell script and run it daily with cron.

Great thanks! Is there any way to schedule this to run when the user logs out of Linux?

I am guessing the user is running bash. If so create a ~/.bash_logout file for the user with the command in. If not using bash, try just ~/.logout If you copy it to /etc/skel/ too then any new users will automatically have the file in their home directories when created.